The dynamism of transposon methylation for plant development and stress adaptation

M Ramakrishnan, L Satish, R Kalendar… - International Journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Plant development processes are regulated by epigenetic alterations that shape nuclear
structure, gene expression, and phenotypic plasticity; these alterations can provide the plant …

Alpha-ketoglutarate ameliorates age-related osteoporosis via regulating histone methylations

Y Wang, P Deng, Y Liu, Y Wu, Y Chen, Y Guo… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Age-related osteoporosis is characterized by the deterioration in bone volume and strength,
partly due to the dysfunction of bone marrow mesenchymal stromal/stem cells (MSCs) …

[HTML][HTML] The role of transposable elements and DNA damage repair mechanisms in gene duplications and gene fusions in plant genomes

KV Krasileva - Current opinion in plant biology, 2019 - Elsevier
Highlights•Plant genomes are dynamic, and gene-size insertions are prominent source of
structural variation evident even within species.•Gene insertions, tandem duplications, and …

MSH1-induced heritable enhanced growth vigor through grafting is associated with the RdDM pathway in plants

H Kundariya, X Yang, K Morton, R Sanchez… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Plants transmit signals long distances, as evidenced in grafting experiments that create
distinct rootstock-scion junctions. Noncoding small RNA is a signaling molecule that is graft …

m6A RNA demethylase AtALKBH9B promotes mobilization of a heat-activated long terminal repeat retrotransposon in Arabidopsis

W Fan, L Wang, Z Lei, H Li, J Chu, M Yan, Y Wang… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Transposons are mobile and ubiquitous DNA molecules that can cause vast genomic
alterations. In plants, it is well documented that transposon mobilization is strongly …

Environmental and epigenetic regulation of Rider retrotransposons in tomato

M Benoit, HG Drost, M Catoni, Q Gouil… - PLoS …, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Transposable elements in crop plants are the powerful drivers of phenotypic variation that
has been selected during domestication and breeding programs. In tomato, transpositions of …

PlantLTRdb: An interactive database for 195 plant species LTR-retrotransposons

MM Mokhtar, AM Alsamman, A El Allali - Frontiers in Plant Science, 2023 - frontiersin.org
LTR-retrotransposons (LTR-RTs) are a large group of transposable elements that replicate
through an RNA intermediate and alter genome structure. The activities of LTR-RTs in plant …

Jumpstarting evolution: How transposition can facilitate adaptation to rapid environmental changes

P Baduel, L Quadrana - Current opinion in plant biology, 2021 - Elsevier
Because of their ability to replicate across genomes, transposable elements (TEs) represent
major generators of large-effect mutations. As a result, chromatin-based mechanisms have …

Development and deployment of high-throughput retrotransposon-based markers reveal genetic diversity and population structure of Asian bamboo

S Li, M Ramakrishnan, KK Vinod, R Kalendar, K Yrjälä… - Forests, 2019 - mdpi.com
Bamboo, a non-timber grass species, known for exceptionally fast growth is a commercially
viable crop. Long terminal repeat (LTR) retrotransposons, the main class I mobile genetic …

Arabidopsis retrotransposon virus-like particles and their regulation by epigenetically activated small RNA

SC Lee, E Ernst, B Berube, F Borges, JS Parent… - Genome …, 2020 - genome.cshlp.org
In Arabidopsis, LTR retrotransposons are activated by mutations in the chromatin gene
DECREASE in DNA METHYLATION 1 (DDM1), giving rise to 21-to 22-nt epigenetically …